
How do you leverage your case competition experience?
You've done a case competition, or maybe a few - this is how you actually convert all the hard work you put in, into meaningful outcomes that can help you get jobs and internships!
You might hear weird words and phrases and things thrown out when it comes to case competitions, so this is your guide breaking it all down.

This is a list of all the jargon and technical terms out there. It's not exhaustive but should give you a good foundation on what most of the lingo means.
Slide master: This is a feature available within PowerPoint that allows you to create templatised slides you can reuse quickly and is a good way to have consistent features across your slides, such as title placements, logos, slide tickets, and numbering in the same place that you can repeat. This provides greater consistency.
Slide ticker: This is the thing at the bottom of slides that allows you to show what each slide is very quickly. Generally, it's broken up into analysis, strategy, and financial/implementation, but then also an appendix.
Appendix: Tis lies at the end of your slide deck and it allows you to include slides that are either too lengthy or not super important in the main deck. You can include slides such as your raw Excel models, just screenshot it and paste it in, case studies, and anything else to help you in your Q&A process.
Case brief: This is the problem statement or document that's given to you when it comes to solving a case competition.
Domestic competitions: Are ones that are held within your location, so those are, as the names suggest, domestic.
ICCs or international case competitions: Are more prestigious and exclusive and difficult competitions where you represent your university and are invitation-only.
Slide deck: This refers to your PowerPoint presentation or any sort of presentation that you've created to solve the case brief that has been presented to you, you generally submit this as the final work product via CaseCrest.
Analysis role: This is one of three/four roles available during case competitions. This person is responsible for presenting and creating the analysis portion of the slide deck submission, which involves a variety of different analysis, including industry, competitor, product and customer journeys.
Strat/Strategy role: This is another one of the three/four roles available, which involves presenting the actual solution your team has come up with. It can show a variety of different slides, including a strategy overview, changes to the customer journey, mockups, and other supporting materials.
Financials/Impacts role: This is another / the last of one of three / four roles available, which is involved in presenting the more quantitative and qualitative outcomes and impacts, as well as implementation timelines and risk mitigations.
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You've done a case competition, or maybe a few - this is how you actually convert all the hard work you put in, into meaningful outcomes that can help you get jobs and internships!

Again, these are not exhaustive by any means and if you do have any questions about any lingo you hear, please email them through to raj.subbanna@casecrest.org, as I'd be more than happy to answer your questions. To find case competitions to participate in click the link below.
Case Competitions come in multiple flavours, but what are they, how do they differ and what is most optimal competition for you?